All Episodes

Ep 146 AI: Premortems, Because A.I. Won't Wait for a Retrospective

Ep 145 Creativity: Stop Asking AI to Agree With You

Ep 144 AI: Your Company Decided Your Value Before AI Existed

Ep 143 AI: AI Isn't a Tool Problem. It's a Culture Problem.

Ep 142 AI: The hidden cost of plausible, almost-right work

Ep 141 Design: A bigger strategy behind Apple’s Liquid Glass?

Ep 140 Keynote: 'Bet on Yourself" BeMore Festival 2025

Ep 139 Career: The Hard Truth About Creativity’s Role in Business Today (and Yesterday)

Ep 138 Creativity: AI Isn’t the Enemy. Complacency Is.

Ep 137 Career: The Pros and Cons of Going Out on Your Own

Ep 136 Career: Overcoming Fear and Insecurity: Why You Need a Plan, Not the Answers

Ep 135 Career: The Hidden Problem of ‘Experience-ism’ in Creative Careers

Ep 134 Career: Tough Love for Your Portfolio: Stand Out or Stay Stuck

Ep 133 Career: How to get laid off

Ep 132 Career: Navigating the Mess: Insights into the 2024 Job Market

Ep 131 Career: What's stopping you from going out on your own?!?

Ep 130: Ending the hiatus. Is this thing still on?

Ep 129 Keynote: BeMore Festival 2023 - How to build a breakthrough career

Ep 128 Career: How to start your studio or freelance business

Ep 127 Career: How to navigate and succeed in the era of defensive employment

Ep 126 Career: Understanding the 2022 job market, a shift is coming

Ep 125 Value of Design P3: Showing the value and impact of design

Ep 124 Value of Design P2: Creating demand for design

Ep 123 Value of Design P1: Understanding the power and stigma of the word 'Design'

Ep 122 Career: How to decide if you should quit your job (or get a promotion)

Ep 121 Design Thinking: The U.S. Army can teach you a lot about Design Thinking

Ep 120 Career: Don't apply for your next job (and what to do instead)

Back from hiatus

Ep 119 Teamwork: How to become a great meeting and workshop facilitator

Ep 118 Teamwork: The best remote team building activities

Ep 117 Teamwork: Understanding your team's cognitive and emotional culture

Ep 116 Creativity: Understanding the new imposter syndrome triggers from remote work

Ep 115 Leadership: How to write an effective and unbiased job description

Ep 114 Career: Overcoming fear and self-doubt

Ep 113 Career: Understanding the 2021 job market

Ep 112 #ShareTheMicNow: The Power of Youth in Redesigning Systems by Antionette Carroll

Ep 111 #ShareTheMicNow: Dismantling White Supremacy in Design by Antionette Carroll

Ep 110 Creativity: 'Metallica’s rock ‘n roll insights on creativity and leadership’ from HOW Design Live 2020

Ep 109 Creativity: ’Hope is not a strategy’ keynote from HOW Design Live 2020

Ep 108 Memorial: The life and lessons of my father, David Gates

Ep 107 Career: How to outsmart the broken recruiting system

Ep 106 Career: How to build a personal brand people will love to hate

Ep 105 Career: How to negotiate salary and job offers

Ep 104 #ShareTheMicNow: Working in Tech While Black Part 1 by Jackie Velasquez Ross, Dorcie Lovinsky, and Christian Clark

Ep 103 Leadership: Why creating organization and cultural change is so hard

Ep 102 #ShareTheMicNow: I Dare You to Care by Sylvia Baffour

Ep 101 #ShareTheMicNow: Maurice Cherry and Debbie Millman in conversation

Joining #ShareTheMicNow

Ep 100 Career: Rejecting your life's invisible scripts

Amazing Design People List: Find a job, a mentor, and some hope.

Ep 99 Career: The 8 habits of successful people

Ep 98 Career: What to do if you get laid off

The Crazy One is now on YouTube

How I'm finding hope in these difficult times.

Ep 97 Career: How to deal with change.

Ep 96 Career: Insights from the Design Imposter Syndrome Crazy One Conversations.

Ep 95 Career: How to create a standout portfolio.

Ep 94 Creativity: The lost art of boredom.

Ep 93 Career: Why you have to build and maintain a personal support system.

Ep 92 Career: How to deal with difficult and creativity killing people

Ep 91 Career: The critical difference between design vs. creativity

Ep 90 Career: The real reason why you aren't getting promoted.

Ep 89 Career: Trends in recruiting, hiring, and retaining the best talent.

Ep 88 Creativity: Trust is the key to everything.

Ep 87 Creativity: Supporting and empowering introverts

Ep 86 Career: How to make peace with yourself to improve your creativity.

Ep 85 Creativity: How to get and give better creative feedback

Ep 84 Design: The need for ethical design

Ep 83 Leadership: Your leadership maturity level, persona and communication style

Ep 82 Conference talk: ’The Future is Creative’ keynote from HOW Design Live 2019

Ep 81 Keynote: ‘Why innovation is rarely authorized’ panel from HOW Design 2019

Ep 80 Emotional intelligence: How to find and restore your confidence

Ep 79 Listener questions: Design operations, start-ups, company “purpose", your career and building a team.

Ep 78 Teamwork: How improv can make your team more creative

Ep 77 Keynote: ‘Building an In-House Design Powerhouse’ keynote from SXSW 2019

Ep 76 Creativity: Why cognitive bias is the real problem with your work.

Ep 75 Career: How to survive corporate politics with grace and integrity

Ep 74 Methodologies: Design Thinking isn't bullsh*t. The way you apply it is.

Ep 73 Listener questions: Design leadership, office environments, design authority. conflict and sharing.

Ep 72 Leadership: How to create REAL innovation

Ep 71 Career: How to become a digital product designer

Ep 70 Emotional intelligence: Understanding and improving your emotional intelligence

Ep 69 Creativity: How to fight imposter syndrome

Ep 68 Career: What's the equation for doing great work?

Ep 67 Creativity: How to give better design feedback

Ep 66 Originality: What to embrace, fight, stop and start to rediscover your voice and create your best ideas.

Ep 65 Listener questions: Branding navigation, hamburger menus, design systems, inspiring change and more.

Ep 64 Teamwork: Best practices for remote work

Ep 63 Creativity: The good and evil of data, research, and brainstorming

Ep 62: Listener questions: Advice for junior designers, activating empathy, work routine and more.

Ep 61 Career: Portfolio, resume and personal branding refresher

Ep 60 Methodologies: Understanding the power and potential of Design Thinking

Ep 59 Career: Know when to quit and do it the right way.

Ep 58 Leadership: Confronting gender bias

Ep 57 Teamwork: How to fix all those useless meetings

Ep 56 Podcast: How to get the most out of this podcast

Ep 55 Career: Know what fights to pick and fight them constructively

Ep 54 Emotional intelligence: The importance of honesty for your work, your team and yourself

Ep 53 Podcast: The Crazy One podcast's biggest lessons of 2017

Ep 52 Career: 6 ways to screw up your career

Ep 51 Leadership: How to work with underperforming people and teams

Ep 50 Conference talk: ‘Building your personal brand' from Adobe MAX 2017

Ep 49 Conference talk: ‘In-house powerhouse' from Adobe MAX 2017

Ep 48 Leadership: 3 step method to coach and grow your team

Ep 47 Creativity: Understanding and applying empathy in your work

Ep 46 Leadership: Why people quit and what you can do about it

Ep 45 Leadership: Become a better leader with the 10/80/10 ratio

Ep 44 Your career: Luck has nothing to do with success or creativity

Ep 43 Creativity: Understanding and breaking through creative slumps

Ep 42 Design: How to design a great mobile app

Ep 41 Emotional intelligence: Understanding and embracing insecurity

Ep 40 In-house design: Who owns creativity: In-house or agency teams?

Ep 39 Mentoring: How to find or become a mentor

Ep 38 Teamwork: Building stronger relationships with your clients (even the difficult ones)

Ep 37 Creativity: How to stop executive interference in your creative process

Ep 36 Listener questions: When do you ask for a raise, making remote teams work and valuing creative talent

Ep 35 Methodologies: Design Thinking P3 - Implementation phase and how build it into your culture

Ep 34 Methodologies: Design Thinking P2 - Ideation phase

Ep 33 Methodologies: Design Thinking P1 - Overview and Inspiration phase

Ep 32 Creativity: How to see opportunities and insights before anyone else

Ep 31 Listener questions: Setting your salary and showing the value of an in-house team

Ep 30 In-house design: How to fix broken and dysfunctional in-house creative teams

Ep 29 Speaking: How to become a great public speaker

Ep 28 Career: The 6 most important lessons I've learned in my career

Ep 27 Emotional intelligence: The relationship between happiness and creativity

Ep 26 Creativity: Have better ideas with better insights and a creative palette

Ep 25 Design: What are Atomic Design Systems and why are they the future?

Ep 24 Methodologies: How to make agile methodologies work with your design process

Ep 23 Conference talk: My talk with Scott Morrison at the 2016 Fifteen Seconds Festival

Ep 22 Teamwork: 5 Ways to build rapport with your clients

Ep 21 Conference talk: 'Success is a choice' from Adobe MAX 2016

Ep 20 Creativity: Insights from chef Thomas Keller on creativity and culture

Ep 19 Design: The 4 trends that will define the future of UI / UX design

Ep 18 Creativity: 7 rules for running a better brainstorm

Ep 17 Hiring: How do you find and hire better creatives?!?

Ep 16 In-house design: The secrets to becoming a successful in-house designer

Ep 15 Creativity: Insights from my conversation with Ferran Adria, the world’s greatest chef

Ep 14 Public speaking: Understanding your audience, the aftermath and keeping it sold

Ep 13 Public speaking: Building, setting up and giving a great presentation

Ep 12 Public speaking: Understanding your presentation style and becoming a better storyteller

Ep 11 Design: Innovative fashion, technology and shoes that might change everything

Ep 10 Creativity: How to build a product or creative strategy

Ep 9 Hiring: The biggest design portfolio opportunities, secrets and mistakes

Ep 8 Hiring: The lost art of the job interview

Ep 7 Career: How to build your personal brand ecosystem

Ep 6 Career: How to create a strong and effective personal brand

Ep 5 Listener questions: Should designers code? Is platformification killing design?

Ep 4 Design: Social media insights, potatoes and power of experiential currency

Ep 3 Teamwork: Creating a stronger culture, team beliefs and the power of 'What inspires you?'

Ep 2 Leadership: Common obstacles and 7 steps to becoming a better leader

Ep 1 Creativity: Lightbulbs are bullish*t

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